This collection includes the courtship letters from 1891 to 1892 between Swan Johnson, a student at the Augustana Theological Seminary in Rock Island, Illinois and Josephine Peterson of Swede Bend, Iowa.

This site features the diary of midwife Martha Ballard (1735-1812) and additional medical and midwifery documents. Ballard wrote in her diary nearly every day from January 1, 1785 to May 12, 1812. In addition to her work as a midwife, Ballard...

Transcriptions of diaries, letters, and other documents about life and events in New England from the 1790s to the 1850s. Highlights include a prenuptial agreement from 1835, correspondence concerning work in textile mills, and the courtship...

This collection includes letters by slave women from 1837-1838 and 1857, as well as Elizabeth Johnson Harris's handwritten memoir. Harris (1867-1942) covers her early childhood, the church community, courtship, marriage, and her children.

African American women; Religion; Women slaves

United States -- Georgia -- Augusta; United States -- North Carolina; United States -- Virginia

The scrapbooks in this collection document such topics as travel, women’s colleges, World War II, courtship, and three generations of family life. In addition, the photos in these albums document life in Valdosta, Georgia , from 1900 hrough the...

Search across collections at Duke, Indiana, University, Johns Hopkins, the Library of Congress, and UCLA. Many of the songs in these collections are about courtship, relationships, and other relevant topics; depictions of women on sheet music...

Popular music; Women in art

United States

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